Thinking in Place

Carol Becker preeminent arts educator and contributor to leading art magazines offers a beautifully poignant meditation on the role of place in artistic creativity. She focuses on place as a historical physical entity and a conceptual site where ideas come into meaning. The book explores places from the coal-mining towns of western Pennsylvania to the Birla House where Gandhi was shot to the sinking city of Venice. A cross between theory memoir and history her writing creates the experiential effect of being in specific places as well as imagining the evolution of ideas as they are manifested in museums and often become agents for social change.